101 in 1001

Having seen Mackenzie Horan's list of 101 things that she is planning to do in the next 1001 days, I was inspired to write my own.  So, I created a blog and started making a list of all those things I'd said I would do and had never got around to doing (and a few things that are less aspirational and more essential for becoming an actual, real life grown up...).  Here goes nothing!


Starts: 1st January 2014
Ends: 14th September 2016
{51 complete, 50 to go!}


  1. Come up with 101 things (18th February 2014)
  2. Inspire someone to write a list of their own
  3. Throw my first dinner party
  4. Drink eight glasses of water every day for at least one week
  5. Visit a continent that I've never been to before
  6. See a new West End show  (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 5th July 2014)
  7. Throw a murder mystery party
  8. Send someone flowers out of the blue (1st December 2015)
  9. Read every Jane Austen novel (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility) (13th August 2014)
  10. Read 15 more books off my “list of books to read” (Total: 12)
    • The Code of the Woosters (20th March 2014)
    • Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde (15th May 2014)
    • The Lovely Bones (22nd June 2014)
    • My Sister's Keeper (10th July 2014)
    • Persuasion (14th August 2014)
    • Birdsong (27th October 2014)
    • Memoirs of a Geisha (28th April 2015)
    • The Scarlet Letter (31st December 2015)
    • Brave New World (2nd April 2016)
    • Little Women (14th July 2016)
    • The Five People You Meet in Heaven (22nd July 2016)
    • Nineteen Eighty-Four (7th September 2016)
  11. Try one “out of my comfort zone” exercise class (5th February 2015)
  12. Go bungee jumping
  13. See ten “so-called” classic films (Total: 10)
    • Hard Day's Night (11th July 2014)
    • The Stepford Wives (13th July 2014)
    • Top Hat (13th October 2014)
    • It's a Wonderful Life (22nd November 2014)
    • The Shop around the Corner (9th December 2014)
    • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (21st February 2015)
    • The Lady Vanishes (27th March 2015)
    • I know where I'm going (22nd August 2015) 
    • The Sting (7th November 2015)
    • Holiday Inn (17th December 2015)
  14. Take a surfing lesson
  15. Give blood as frequently as possible for 6 months (started 12th January 2015)
  16. Go skydiving
  17. Watch 10 Audrey Hepburn films (Total: 8)
  18. Visit a city that I’ve never been to before (17th January 2014)
  19. Discover 10 new restaurants (Total: 10)
    • Bill's (27th May 2014)
    • Cote (27th September 2014)
    • Smack lobster (29th April 2015)
    • Butch Annie's (27th June 2015)
    • Wahaca (13th November 2015)
    • Croma (14th November 2015)
    • TNQ (15th November 2015)
    • Yo! Sushi (28th November 2015)
    • 1847 (18th January 2016)
    • Ply (14th March 2016)
  20. See a comedy show (14th August 2015)
  21. Make 10 new recipes (Total: 3)
    • Candy cane marshmallows (10th December 2015)
    • Simnel cake (24th March 2016)
    • Banana bread (14th May 2016)
    • Courgette and lemon spaghetti (18th July 2016)
    • Quinoa salad with tahini dressing (17th August 2016)
    • Cocnut curry with prawns (18th August 2016)
    • Grilled vegetables with haloumi cheese (20th August 2016)
  22. Take a jive/swing dance lesson
  23. Make a dress myself (30th April 2014)
  24. Try 5 new foods (Total: 5)
    • Dim sum (28th September 2014)
    • Lebkuchen (8th December 2014)
    • Palacsinta (17th January 2015)
    • Betenjel farci (16th February 2015)
    • Mochi (23rd April 2015)
  25. Take a cocktail making class
  26. Donate regularly to charity
  27. Go on a hot air balloon ride
  28. Do a colour run
  29. Roll my own sushi (22nd July 2016)
  30. Learn calligraphy
  31. Run in a charity 10k run
  32. Make homemade pasta
  33. Organise my itunes
  34. Learn French
  35. Take a cooking lesson (19th April 2015)
  36. Sightsee on a scooter
  37. Visit every county in England
    • Cambridgeshire (16th March 2014)
    • Wiltshire (15th May 2014
    • Worcestershire (26th May 2014)
    • Gloucestershire(14th June 2014)
    • Devon (24th September 2014)
    • Lancashire (17th October 2014)
    • Hampshire (24th October 2014)
    • Norfolk (13th December 2014)
    • Warwickshire (26th December 2014)
    • Cheshire (29th December 2014)
    • Oxfordshire (24th January 2015)
    • Suffolk (15th February 2015)
    • Yorkshire (22nd April 2015)
    • Nottinghamshire (3rd May 2015)
    • Lincolnshire (3rd May 2015)
    • Bristol (10th April 2016)
    • Tyne and Wear (5th August 2016)
    • Northumberland (6th August 2016)
  38. Attend 5 concerts 
    • McBusted (9th May 2014)
    • McBusted (!) (6th July 2014)
    • McBusted (I have a problem...) (22nd March 2015)
    • Busted (21st May 2016)
    • Florence and the Machine (2nd July 2016)
  39. Ride a segway
  40. Renew my first aid certificate
  41. Eat “5 a day” for a fortnight (started 23rd January 2016, completed 6th February 2016)
  42. Send 50 letters (Total: 44)
  43. Ring a friend a week for 3 months 
  44. Buy personalised stationery (23rd March 2015)
  45. Cook  a 3 course meal for my family
  46. See the Northern Lights
  47. Exercise 3 times a week for 3 months (started 6th April, completed 5th July 2015)
  48. Join my school's alumni association  (19th June 2016)
  49. Watch a live TV recording
  50. Donate to a food bank
  51. Watch 5 foreign language films (Total: 5)
    • Amelie (7th September 2014)
    • Populaire (29th February 2016)
    • Barbara (22nd July 2016)
    • The Kid with a Bike (20th August 2016)
    • Everlasting Moments (3rd September 2016)
  52. Learn the capital cities and locations of all countries in Europe (23rd July 2016)
  53. Send a postcard to someone on each trip I take
  54. Watch all 5 best picture nominees prior to the Baftas
  55. Make macarons
  56. Attend a major sporting event/game
  57. Complete my interail scrapbook (24th November 2015)
  58. Complete 30 day decluttering challenge (September 2015)
  59. Go on a major guiding event/trip
  60. Visit three museums (Total: 3, V&A, Fitzwilliam, Oliver Cromwell's House)
  61. Visit the Harry Potter studios (7th April 2014)
  62. Go to the opera (Princess Ida, 12th February 2016)
  63. Buy a pretty bicycle
  64. Go to bed at 10pm every night for a week (23rd July 2016)
  65. Visit 5 European countries (Total: 5)
    • Belgium (17th January 2014)
    • Ireland (16th June 2014)
    • Greece (9th August 2014)
    • Hungary (16th January 2015)
    • Poland (15th January 2016)
  66. Watch an outdoor film
  67. Visit the 3 peaks
  68. Take a yoga class (5th September 2015)
  69. Attend a horse race
  70. Have a horse riding lesson
  71. Go to the ballet
  72. Take a trapeze class
  73. Write to my MP about an issue I believe in (24th October 2015)
  74. Buy something from Chanel
  75. Buy a “new to me” car (19th June 2014)
  76. Visit a Guiding world centre
  77. Take a tram somewhere (17th January 2014)
  78. Buy a big issue (23rd July 2016)
  79. Go to an art gallery that I haven’t been to (Whitworth Art Gallery, 23rd March 2015)
  80. Go to a play (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 24th July 2014)
  81. Say yes to 5 invites that I would normally say no to 
    • Leaving party (30th August 2014)
    • Bouldering (11th September 2014)
    • Birthday dinner (27th May 2015)
    • Westcott ball (10th June 2015)
    • London (6th February 2016)
  82. Upgrade my phone
  83. Organise a scavenger hunt
  84. Go swimming in the sea (15th August 2014)
  85. Make a snowman
  86. Get back in contact with someone (Caroline, 27th November 2014)
  87. Paint my nails once a week for 2 months (18th May 2014)
  88. Go rock climbing (11th September 2014)
  89. Start a capsule wardrobe (June 2016)
  90. Meet a celebrity (Mary Portas, 17th April 2015)
  91. Close my social media accounts for 1 week 
  92. Visit every college in Cambridge (Total: 31)
    • Churchill (12th December 2014)
    • Christ's (28th February 2015)
    • King's (28th February 2015)
    • Homerton (19th April 2015)
    • Corpus Christi (25th July 2015)
    • Downing (25th July 2015)
    • Emmanuel (25th July 2015)
    • Pembroke (25th July 2015)
    • Clare Hall (8th August 2015)
    • Fitzwilliam (8th August 2015)
    • Murray Edwards (8th August 2015)
    • Robinson (8th August 2015)
    • Selwyn (8th August 2015)
    • St Edmund's (8th August 2015)
    • Peterhouse (9th August 2015)
    • Queens' (9th August 2015)
    • Wolfson (9th August 2015)
    • Newnham (9th August 2015)
    • Trinity (30th August 2015)
    • Magdalene (8th September 2015)
    • Trinity Hall (8th September 2015)
    • Jesus (8th September 2015)
    • Sidney Sussex (8th September 2015) 
    • Girton (9th September 2015)
    • Gonville and Caius (11th September 2015)
    • Clare (11th September 2015)
    • St John's (11th September 2015)
    • Hughes Hall (11th September 2015)
    • Darwin (11th September 2015)
    • Lucy Cavendish (11th September 2015)
    • St Catharine's (11th September 2015)
  93. Drive a car on the "wrong" side of the road
  94. Go punting (13th June 2014)
  95. Visit Stonehenge
  96. Write a will
  97. Knit my own pair of socks (27th February 2016)
  98. Learn how to maintain my bike
  99. Learn to change a car tyre
  100. Take photos in a photobooth (14th May 2014)
  101. Put £10 into savings for every task accomplished, donate £5 for each task missed